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Friday, 23 July 2010

I am waiting for my Chunky Lover to come home and take care of the Troll and Squirky and then I'm going to hit the town with my girl friend...

Plan at 09:00 - stick to Slimming World whilst at home and eat everything in sight when I go out for the evening....

Plan at 10:00 - stick as close as possible but just eaten a chocolate animal bar so that's syns for day gone....

Plan at 11:30 - sod it have a day off! Cheese on toast for lunch it is!

This time round on the SW plan I don't mind about the odd gain because I'm eating healthily for the rest of my life. The 'rest of my life' is going to involve some special occasions so I am going to make the most of them and then get back on plan each time. I gained 8lbs on holiday last month and that's all gone already, so one day won't be an issue.

The weight loss may be slower, but it's still going in the right direction.

I tell myself:

"Slow and steady wins the race"

and

"A dripping tap still fills the bucket"

and (if I need a motivational kick up the bum)

"

Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip"

How The Mummy Got Her Blubber

Moomin Troll was born in the Autumn of 2006. Whilst pregnant my face had got so fat my eyes squinted out of it, my arms flapped when I waved & I got chub rub.
I joined Slimming World weighing 15st6lbs. The word of Margaret Miles-Bramwel was followed as gospel & by the time I was engaged, married & pregnant again I’d lost 4st. As close to a yummy-mummy as I might ever be.
But morning sickness required ginger biscuits & pregnancy exhaustion demanded convenience foods. I couldn’t be bothered anymore.
Squirky arrived with the 2010 snowflakes, & left 5st of mummy blubber clinging to my tum & bum.
I started this blog on 17 May 2010 having lost almost a stone so far on the Extra Easy plan, & by the Power of Syns Online I vow to lose a further 2 st. Any more is a bonus & deserves ice cream as a reward.

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This blog is a daily account of everything I have eaten, and includes how I cooked one meal a day.

As with most people cooking at home, I cook a mixture of meals that I have been part of our regular menu for many years and also recipes that have caught my eye in books or magazines.

In cases where it's a family fave, I simply can't remember where many came from, whether from magazines, taught by family or books. It's probably fair to say that if they did come from a printed source, through trial and error they will be very different from the original recipe by now.

If I do report on a meal that I have created following a recipe I will always quote the original source, and my retelling of it will be how I recreated it in my own kitchen rather than quoting the recipe as printed. I will include any changes I made either to keep it in line with SW requirements, omitting items I don't like, or not having an ingredient to hand.

I am not claiming these recipes to be my own, simply retelling how I followed various recipes, and spreading the messagethat when you are on a diet you don't have to follow a 'diet recipe'- there's a world of gorgeous food out there to enjoy and here's how I am enjoying it!

The syn values are worked out per serving and are correct (to my knowledge) at the time of posting. Syns change those so always double check.